The Denver Post published a column this week that indicated the Sixers' upper management had vetoed a proposed trade of Allen Iverson to the Denver Nuggets.

The column said two of the principals in trade talks between the Sixers and Nuggets were Iverson and Denver forward Kenyon Martin.

Columnist Thomas George wrote Tuesday: "The Nuggets have already offered Martin to the Sixers as part of a package to secure Iverson (the Philadelphia coaching staff said yes, but their chairman, Ed Snider, said no, concerned about Martin's previously bum left knee)."

"It's a bogus article, and I vehemently deny that there was ever any truth to that article," he said.

A source familiar with the situation agreed with King, saying that the Sixers never had considered dealing for Martin.